Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.

Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.

Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We can bury the lies and embrace the truth. And we can move forward.

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.

I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul

You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.

And I knew I would nevr have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.

It's just that I've learned that somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons.

If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn she’s done something abominable, do you stop loving her?

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

You and me, " I said, "we both got the same kind of hurt inside us."She nodded, and suddenly, just like that, I knew I could trust her with my life.

Just the sight of one another, just the sight of our smiles was enough to fill our hearts with the joy of seeing each other again.

Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following Christ means passio passiva, suffering because we have to suffer.

Halloween creatures both friendly & gruesome peered out of the rustling leaves.

Everybody forgets the basic thing: people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects.

The majority of people do not accept my choices.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.